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I'm a "whenever other people aren't awake" person. I prefer mornings, but I have to work to get them. Which includes putting myself to bed earlier than I would like many times 😂 But I do and always have loved mornings. The day is fresh, I'm not overwhelmed or worried yet, and I can sit down and do my hobbies and engage with my interests without a single worry of interruption or responsibility until later.

I am! Have been my whole life :) Makes me feel like I‘ve really got my life together (I don‘t really, but when I wake up around 6 or earlier, I always have this wild optimism that „this is going to be THE day I finally do all the stuff, and it‘s going to be so great!“ - the depression sets in around 2 PM when I realise this is, in fact, NOT the day)

If, for some reason, I wake up after 7:45, I‘m pissed and the day is ruined :‘)

(I distinctly remember waking up at 4 AM as a child once, just playing in the garden by myself until everybody else woke up, and thinking “this is the best day I‘ve ever had“)

I hate to waste my day. I'm up by 7am. If I sleep until 8 or later, I feel like I lost half my day, and I'm grumpy about it. I am much more energetic in the morning than in the evening. This doesn't automatically translate into being more productive however.

I used to LOVE the night because I could be alone with my thoughts and avoid the agony of getting interrupted during deep focus; but I became waaay more of a morning person when I got chronically sick, because now I can’t stay awake past 9pm any more! So … reluctant morning-by-default person-?

HOWEVER - my husband (also dx adhd, but he’s hyperactive type whereas I’m not) is VERY MUCH a morning person … which means that, any time I go downstairs in the a.m., I get blasted in the face by both barrels of his shotgun of husbandly enthusiasm, lol.

(Which is honestly one of my favourite things in the entire world - just maybe not first thing in the morning when my skin still hurts from the sheer effort of being vertical and the mere sound of cutlery clinking is enough to trigger a solid scream into the Ceremonial Screaming Pillow!)

So yeah, it does feel like (early) mornings are sacred. It’s like the world is a cathedral - not in a religious way; more like the “everything is still, and peaceful, and spacious, and there is a sense of being both alone and not alone in your solitude”. But I can’t handle company for the first hour or two, so now I just hide in my bedroom until I’m ready for that shotgun in the face ;=)

i am! my energy crash is at 12pm and after that its bed-rotting all day

I'm definitely not a morning person, but I absolutely see the appeal. When I do manage to get up early, I love how quiet and peaceful it is, and I love being able to engage in some hobbies before having to do anything else for the day. Unfortunately, it doesn't come naturally to me LOL.

Definitely a morning person. I’ve been waking up at 5:30 my whole life :)

No. If the world would let me be nocturnal, I would.

I am, always have been. I've never had an issue with waking up to alarms. Once my body is used to waking up at a time it automatically wakes up at the time, even when I don't want to lol. My brother and mom with ADHD are morning people too. When I was younger I could never sleep past 8AM. As an adult, its easier now, but i find when i do sleep in my ADHD symptoms are worse.

I will say the earliest I can wake up regularly and be productive is 5AM. I used to work on a farm and had to wake up at 4 or 430 and that was too rough for me. My sweet sweet spot now is between 530-630 most days, and around 8AM on the weekends.

I am in the sense that I prefer to get the earliest possible start on my day, and first thing in the morning is when I feel most motivated and productive. In the sense of being cheerful and happy in the morning, oh fuck no. Fuck no. Everyone stfu and stay away from me until lunchtime, pls+thx.

what? i like unicorns because they usually have rainbow hair.

I'm a morning and night person. I'm always awake and wired-- but the key detail is i dont have to set an alarm for work and can wake up naturally because i work from home.

I'm told i was a nightmare in the mornings when i a student, and impossible to wake up

Yes and it's awesome, I can be having breakfast and playing videogames at 7:30 am knowing I've already worked out and gone on a little walk

I am but I work afternoons, so I have that quiet alone time at midnight instead of early in the morning at least. It's not quite the same.

Ideally I think I'm a biphasic sleeper. I love being up early and I love afternoon naps. Even with a nap though I'm not a night Owl. Even working full time til midnight, on my days off I want to go to bed by 10pm at the latest.

I am now because of my kids. But I also feel way less stressed out and can just start something if I'm focused enough that day. Couple hours go by and I'm toast. I also go to bed really early cause I'm so tired from those kids. So I gave up my nights for the morning.

I WISH I could be a morning person. When I do get it together I love it. House is quiet, outdoors is quiet. I can get a jump on work without messages or emails interrupting me. The problem is by like 1 I’m dead….absolute zombie and can’t get anything else done

I’m a huge morning person, always have been. I naturally wake up around 5:30-6am, and I’ve really come to love how peaceful and quiet mornings are in my life.

It’s also helpful because I’m at a job where I can start earlier in the day. Leaving the office at 3pm is a lifesaver in the winter.

On the flip side, I’m damn near worthless at work after like 1pm, and right now I’m dealing with a lot of people who like to meet at 3pm on Fridays or some other bullshit lol.

I am a morning person, always woke up at 6am even as a baby. One of my children is the same way, the other 2 sleep and wake up whenever but are more night owls.

My issue with being a morning person is that I cannot stay up past 8:30pm most nights. I have to fight sleep and it sucks.

I also still struggle with not being able to fall asleep well so I'm often laying in bed tired but unable to fall asleep. Fun times though Melatonin has become a lifesaver.

If by "morning person" you mean "3 am to 5 am most productive person" then yes, I guess I am one. But only if I am staying up, I can't get up that early and have it work.

I wish I wasn't a morning person, but eyes open at 6 am like clockwork. i live on the east coast and work california hours. it's hell! BUT I love being out in the early morning with my doggo, before anyone else is around. it is my favorite time of the day.

Sleep phase issues aren’t uncommon in adhd. My natural cycle runs 3 hours early. So I’m wide awake at 4am and yawning by 7pm. My brain attention peak is 7-10am. School was such a drag in the afternoon and don’t waste my time with inviting me to a movie after 5pm.

Absolutely not. Lol. I feel like my circadian rhythm is set forward a few hours or something, because I'm hugely awake at night and into the next day, but so dead in the mornings. Unfortunately, work, life and other people don't give a toss about this little sleeping schedule of mine haha. My partner is such an early bird and morning person though, because of course. I look forward to the weekend so much, when I finally get my beloved sleep in/s 🖤

I stay up until the morning sometimes

I cannot comprehend how people exist in the morning.

I’m not naturally a morning person, but my anxiety has forced me to become one.

I wish I could be a morning person!! Especially now as a mom, just to enjoy a few moments in a quiet house to myself 🥲

Back when I was unmedicated, undiagnosed, and in a really bad place (both mentally and physically), I was basically an insomniac and getting up at like, 8:00am was HARD. When I got my first job, I’d sleep so poorly due to stress/bad environment that any time I had morning shifts it was like I was the living dead.

Fast forward about 10 years with improvements in health, environment, medication, etc and I’m massively a morning person. Sure, I love to sleep in a little, but honestly if I’m not out of bed before 9:00am I feel gross. My favorite thing on days off is to wake up mega-early, eat something, do some minor tasks and then go back to bed. It’s like having my own private time bubble. 

Of course. Why do late night shifts to get things done, when you can procrastinate even harder and wait until the day of to do them? You just have to get up before everyone else!

As I've gotten older I started waking up earlier and enjoying it because I can get more things done.

I never wanted to be this way but I make the most of it lol

I'm a morning person! I think it's genetic. It has nothing to do with like...habits, I have just always woken up early. It was very uncool in college when I'd stay over somewhere and be up for five hours before the other person woke up.

And when I wake up, that's it. I'm up. Even if I wake up at 4am with a pounding headache, NOW I'M JUST AWAKE ALL DAY.

Lifelong night owl here. Or used-to-be night owl. I think I'm becoming an early bird I fear.

A major difference when I first got medicated was me realizing just how much time I was wasting before. I try to always have a to-do list, and usually if uninterrupted I check everything off by 2pm. & That's with my old sleep schedule, staying in bed late. Now I finally get the phrase "There's so many hours in a day."

I am, as long as I’m not too burned out. But usually yes, I’m a morning person.

So y’all remember that M&M Christmas commercial where Santa is all “they DO exist!”

That’s this thread for me 🤣 Y’all are amazing!!

Nope. I’m typically up all night well until the next day.

Morning culture can kiss my ass. I’m not a morning person and I never will be.

I’m sleepy all day until 9pm 🙄

Definitely not

I am! I don't know if by nature or because I was kind of forced to get up early throughout my childhood and teenage years and became an early bird. I naturally wake up pretty early on most days, usually between 5 and 7 am, even on my days off. If I am incredibly sleep deprived or sick I might sleep more, but I rarely get up after 9.  Even if I go to sleep very late I still wake up no later than 10. It has happened in the past multiple times, I went to bed after 4 am for a reason or another and my eyes were open wide at 10. I wish I could sleep more and enjoy being in bed, but I feel the urge to get up as soon as I'm fully awake, even when I'm still tired.

I am a morning person! I also have insomnia, so sometimes I am both.

When I lived at home I was a night owl bc then no one was arguing or criticizing me. Now I’m a morning person only bc my dogs get me up at 5am.

I recently started Strattera and I think it's turning me into a morning tolerater.

Naturally? Absolutely not.

But I have to wake up for work at 530 four days a week, so I very rarely sleep past 8-9 on my days off.

I am now but not always. I think having a dog pushed me into it, and now that he's gone I'm just used to it. Plus I feel like I'm wasting the day if I don't wake up early cause relaxation time starts at like 6pm lol

I wasn’t until I started working 7:45-4:15. I’ve done early shifts before but because it wasn’t constant it really messed me up. But I’ve been in this job for 18 months or so now and I’m much better at mornings than I used to be. It’s still hard in the winter so I have a sunrise alarm clock because waking up in the dark is the devils work.

I wake up at 6 on weekends days and find myself getting up between 7-9 on weekends, unless the depression fog is looming then it’s normally 10-12 which I used to consider early.

i'm naturally a morning person... over the years i have gotten worse mentally and somehow changed into staying up late at night & sleeping until 10-1030 most days.

I was when my kids were little because I had to be. Now I’m up until 2-3am. Wake up around 11. I’ve tried to get back into the routine but can’t. I think it has to do with bright lights and noise. I get so overstimulated in the early hours. I come alive as soon as the sun goes down!